Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought 170
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nk497 writes "Porn sites are five times as likely to host malware as previously thought, with 3.6% offering up a digital infection of some sort, according to a researchers who set up their very own adult sites for a new study. One reason for the high rate of malware is that the online porn industry makes use of affiliate programs, where one site will drive traffic to another in exchange for links, cash, or simply free pornographic material to use. Because such programs don't check who they're doing business with, and sites use disguised links and other clandestine methods to drive people to different pages, it's easy for criminals to abuse the system to spread malware. Researcher Gilbert Wondracek said, 'They inadvertently have created an ecosystem that can easily be abused on a large scale by cyber criminals, and that's worrying.'"
Tits or GTFO (Score:1, Informative)
Only old men that get caught by their wives via porn mailing lists use porn sites. Kids nowadays use 4chan, which are typically more tech-savvy than their old male counterparts. Whomever uses porn sites with java on gets what they deserve. If you need to turn on java to see pictures, it's probably not a safe site. Also, providing log-in info and an e-mail address to access porn to a website that is likely compromised is a bad idea, which is why 4chan is great because you don't need to readily sign up for a premium account (lol).
Re:Funding (Score:3, Informative)
Did they submit their own collections?
Porn SITES .
Re:3.6% (Score:1, Informative)
Noscript, adblock plus, spybot/blaster, a few good i/o monitors, weekly scans, no worries.
It's easy to get infected with low-lying malware, which is everywhere now. Everywhere.
I'll only be concerned when they can past the moron line of defense.
Re:That's ok... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So basically (Score:4, Informative)
Actually no. Sex professionals take their occupation quite seriously. It is the non-professional who is lose and fast with their machines and their sexual practices. Do you think just "keeping a high moral standard" will keep you safe? Think again.
Just as with computers, preventative measure and testing are needed. For me, I run Linux, Firefox, no-script and adblock. Testing isn't quite as required for me, but I routinely check processes running and the like. Sex workers frequently get tested and people in the industry know what other people in the industry have been up to for the most part. "average people" get sex diseases a LOT more often than sex industry pros.
"Film at 11" explained (Score:3, Informative)
Unsafe behavior leads to spread of viruses
We knew that qualitatively. The article provides a quantitative measure, which allows drawing stronger conclusions about how to improve security against distribution of malware through ad networks. It's the difference between "are there infections" and "how much".
film at eleven.
(Eleven what?)
Eleven hours after high noon. Before modern electronic news gathering, television news would often report the story at 6 PM and then have the "film" (footage shot on the scene) available for the 11 PM newscast.
Re:Simple one-person solution... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So basically (Score:2, Informative)
How much unprotected 'face shot and swallow" is there? a lot.
How much preventative measures? Very little.
How much testing? Monthly!!
But only HIV will kick you out of the business.
The other STDs are very common if scientific reports are to be believed. Outbreaks for the other stuff prevent work for a week if AIM Healthcare is to be believed.
So if you take infected as being HIV only, sure, porn stars don't hardly have it. The other stuff can be up to 30%
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892037/ [nih.gov]
Re:So basically (Score:3, Informative)
They do test, but the window period [wikipedia.org] can be as high as three months with plain ELISA, down to a month if you spend extra for Western blot, and that means that when someone comes out positive, all his/her partners within that period have to be tested as well as their respective partners. It happened in 2004 (5 infected) [msn.com] and 2009 (16 infected) [latimes.com].
Back on topic: I haven't gotten anything from the web *ever*, perhaps for the simple discipline of not authorizing ActiveX components, applets and other gimmicks.
But that's me; I guess less computer-literate *and* porn hungry guys make easier targets - "Yes, Ok, Yes, show me the movies already!".
Bullshit ! (Score:3, Informative)
One reason for the high rate of malware is that the online porn industry makes use of affiliate programs, where one site will drive traffic to another in exchange for links, cash or simply free pornographic material to use.
No, it's totally wrong.
It's simply because the most dangerous ads are the ones which pay the most.
Malware authors know that if they want to infect sites, they just have to propose more money than Google's Adsense and similar companies.
They'll recover this money after a few infections.
Also, I'm pretty sure that a lot of malware authors create free porn sites, just to avoid paying for ads.
I saw that on a lot of cracks collections sites.
Re:Simple one-person solution... (Score:3, Informative)
Faster? What is this, a race? Nah, vibrators is just a cheap cop out. You wanna turn that woman into a puddle of goo and curl her toes? you listen to your old play hairyfeet: You use your hands and most importantly...your voice. The whole time you are exploring her body, you tell her how sexy she is, how you love watching her writhe on your bed, how you can't wait to be inside her, how you can't wait to taste her, how you love to feel her clit throbbing beneath your fingers, and before you can get anything else out her back will be arching and she'll be wailing like a banshee. Then you need to pet her down while telling her how beautiful she looks when she comes. Trust me, the girl WILL be coming back for more and more.
As for TFA, as a PC repairman I'd say a good 75%+ of the buggy PCs that cross my desk come from guys surfing pron sites. The rest are from girls falling for FB and IM bugs. It got to the point I did some research and found a free site (not linking here to avoid giving them the /. effect) that has 1000 hours of porn easy, so I just point my customers that keep getting porn bugs towards this site. It may cost me some repeat business, but I get enough from referrals as it is, and cleaning porn bugs is...eeew.